The FDA really seems to have a bad rep. See, for instance, Ranbaxy: http://fortune.com/2013/05/15/dirty-medicine/ http://fortune.com/2013/05/15/dirty-medicine/

The FDA really seems to have a bad rep. See, for instance, Ranbaxy: http://fortune.com/2013/05/15/dirty-medicine/ http://fortune.com/2013/05/15/dirty-medicine/ They were faking results and running terrible QC, to the point of shipping glass in pills. The FDA was very slow to fine them, and then only closed specific sites. It's obvious this company was rotten to the core, and is now part of Sun Pharma. FDA's done a bit more since then, but they should have issued a full ban and then started to whitelist things bit by bit. Local health inspectors come down harder. It creates other effects, too. By looking bad in some cases, people stop trusting the FDA. They then decide that things like sucralose are harmful "because you can't trust the FDA", and instead consume large amounts of sugar (it's natural!).